Developer(s) | Nullriver |
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Initial release | 27 August 2007[1] |
Final release | 3.1
/ 8 September 2007 |
Operating system | macOS, Windows |
Available in | English |
Type | Jailbreaking |
AppTapp was one of the first jailbreak tools for the iPhone, for iPhone OS 1.0.0-1.0.2. It works by downloading the firmware file for the version selected, extracting the restore ramdisk and kernelcache, patching them, and uploading them and a new fstab
as a payload to the iPhone. This file was only two lines long:
/dev/disk0s1 / hfs rw 0 1 /dev/disk0s2 /private/var hfs rw,noexec 0 2